A woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that the company's chatbot Grok facilitated the creation of child sexual abuse material.
According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman claims her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old, generating over 7,000 explicit images of her. The stepfather reportedly died by suicide two days after law enforcement discovered the images during a raid.
"Limitless access to these tools is spreading so quickly," the woman said. "It is taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
The original lawsuit, filed by the teenagers, accuses xAI (now part of SpaceX) of failing to implement basic safeguards to prevent Grok from generating explicit images of real people, including minors. (X was flooded with millions of Grok-generated sexualized images earlier this year.) The plaintiffs are seeking class action status for their case.
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